News and Notes [1-10] Charlotte Smith, Keats, and the Nightingale George W. Whiting John Murray to J. W. Croker: An Unpublished Letter on Keats Lyle H. Kendall, Jr. A Note on the Dedication to Don Juan William C. Childers A Note From the Keats House in Rome Vera Cacciatore Articles Ode on a “New Etrurian” Urn. A Reflection of Wedgwood Ware in the Poetic Imagery of John Keats [11-36] Dwight E. Robinson Byr . . .

The Keats-Shelley Association of America emerged from a coalition of scholars, critics, bibliophiles, editors, students, teachers – all engaged with the brilliant accomplishments of Keats and Shelley and, more practically, working to purchase and endow the maintenance of the Keats House in Rome (26 Piazza di Spagna, where Keats lived his last months), and provide ongoing care of the poets’ graves in Rome’s Protestant Cemetery. In 1949 the American Committee was incorporated as the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Read more

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants

The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to support research in British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. Preference is given to projects involving authors featured in the bibliography of The Keats-Shelley Journal, the Association’s annual publication. Read more

Distinguished Scholar Award

In order to recognize career-long excellence in scholarship devoted to the writers of our period and the culture in which they lived, the Keats-Shelley Association of America has since 1981 conferred a Distinguished Scholar Award to not more than two awardees per year. Read more

K-SAA Essay Prize

Each year, the directors of the K-SAA recognize one scholar for an outstanding critical essay in the field of Romanticism. Read more

K-SAA Mentoring Project

The K-SAA Mentoring Program is designed to aid junior scholars in the crucial early stages of their academic careers. The Mentoring Program aims to formalize one of the Association’s most important features–the exchange of expertise and practical professional information between junior and senior scholars. Read more

Stuart Curran Symposium

An annual symposium dedicated to serving the professional and public communities invested in the writers of our period and named after Stuart Curran for his brilliant, decade-long leadership as President of the K-SAA, during which time he initiated the Symposium series. More at the Romantic Bicentennials site

Bill and Stuart Buice Fund

The Bill and Stuart Buice Fund provides for one or two bursaries per year to be used to defray the travel and housing expenses of graduate students, independent scholars, or assistant professors without other means of support who wish actively to participate in K-SAA conferences or symposia.

Annual Awards Dinner

Each year at the MLA convention, the K-SAA holds a dinner that serves as a convivial occasion for our community and as a venue for celebrating scholarly excellence though the presenting of our Essay Prize and Distinguished Scholar Award.

The Keats-Shelley Journal

Launched in 1952, the Keats-Shelley Journal is published (in print form: ISSN 0453-4387) annually by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. It contains articles on John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and their circles of mutual influence and context–as well as news and notes, book reviews, and a current bibliography. Read more

FrankenReads

Frankenreads is an NEH-funded initiative of the Keats-Shelley Association of America and partners to hold a series of events and initiatives in honor of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, featuring especially an international series of readings of the full text of the novel on Halloween 2018.

Romantic Bicentennials

Co-sponsored by the K-SAA and the Byron Society of America, Romantic Bicentennials, recognizes landmark bicentennials surrounding Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, and global culture. The initiative covers the period of 2016-2024, from landmark publications to the deaths of Keats, P.B. Shelley, and Byron. Our annual Curran Symposium and other "networked events" can be found on the events page.

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The Keats-Shelley House (26 Piazza di Spagna) is most famous for being the final dwelling place of John Keats, who died here in 1821, aged just 25, and to this day Keats’s bedroom is preserved as a shrine to his tragic story and extraordinary talent. Displayed through a chain of beautiful rooms, the museum's collection contains a great many treasures and curiosities associated with the lives and works of the Romantic poets, as well as one of the finest libraries of Romantic literature in the world. Visit their Web site

Keats House (Hampstead, UK) is where the poet John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820, and is the setting that inspired some of his most memorable poetry. Here, Keats wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale', and fell in love with Fanny Brawne, the girl next door. It was from this house that he travelled to Rome, where he died of tuberculosis aged just 25. Visit their Web site

The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association was formed in 1903, with the support of King Edward VII, King Vittorio Emmanuele III and President 'Teddy' Roosevelt. The Museum was opened in 1909. Apart from maintaining the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, the Association is responsible for the upkeep of the graves of Keats and Shelley in the non-Catholic Cemetery at Testaccio. It also awards an annual Keats-Shelley Prize for exemplary essays and poems on Romantic themes. Visit their Web site

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If you aren't yet a member of the K-SAA, please visit our "Join" page, which offers a number of membership levels from which to choose. By becoming a member of the K-SAA, you also receive a subscription to the Keats-Shelley Journal.